Of wingless Heteromerides, we found only one _Tagenia_, and that under the dry bark of a tree. For Pimeliades the soil is unfavourable, there not being, as far as we could learn, in the country round Manilla, either stones, or low, broad-leafed plants, under which these animals can find shelter from the burning rays of the sun: they are found only under dry bark, and about the root of the _Opatrum_, _Uloma_, and similar plants. The Helopides, on the other hand, must be looked for on the dry branches in the tops of trees, but we obtained only six varieties. Of the twenty-six stag-beetles collected here, it is necessary to observe, that they are all essentially different from those found in South America. Our passage through the Chinese Sea was rapid; and as we had constantly stormy weather in the Indian Ocean, we had no opportunities of observing marine animals. In the vicinity of the Cape, we caught some Salpae, Physaliae, and Velellae; but in the Northern Atlantic, after reaching the region of the _Sargassum natans_, daily opportunities for interesting observations presented themselves. From the point at which the floating sea-weed was first noticed, (eighteen degrees north latitude, and about thirty degrees of longitude west of Greenwich,) to the coast of England, forty-three kinds of animals were observed, not noticed on our outward voyage. We were able to make a very exact examination of the whole system of the _Beroe punctata_. Three new varieties of Medusa were discovered, and an animal (_Rataria N._) between _Velella_ and _Porpita_: it has the flat form of the latter, but is provided with a sail, which it can draw in at will. We also caught the animal which Le Sueur has called _Stephanomia uvaeformis_. Lastly, we had the good fortune to procure a specimen of an animal which appears to form a link between the _Salpa_ and _Pyrosoma_. This species (called _Anchinia_) consists of a number of animalculae of the Salpa form, which, by means of a stalk, are attached to a common body, all of them being turned to the same side. In the course of less than three years, 2400 kinds of animals were either examined, or only collected, consisting of the following classes:-- Species. Mammalia 28 Birds 165 Amphibia 33 Fishes 90 Annulides 40 Crustacea 127 Insects 1400 Arachnides 28 Cephalopodes 20 Gasteropodes 162 Acephali 45 Tunicati 28 Cirrhipedes 21 Echinodermates 60 Acalephi 63 Zoophytes 90 FR. ESCHSCHOLTZ. Dorpat, 7th January, 1828. THE END. LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. FOOTNOTES: [1] A kind of urn in use throughout all Russia, called a Samowar, or self-boiler. It generally stands in the middle of the tea-table, and is furnished with a large kettle for water, and a space filled with fire to keep it boiling.